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Out of the Shadows
Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice
Buch von Emily Midorikawa
Sprache: Englisch

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Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance--a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own.

Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and, most important, influence, as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead. The Fox sisters inspired some of the era's best-known political activists and set off a transatlantic séance craze. While in the throes of a trance, Emma Hardinge Britten delivered powerful speeches to crowds of thousands. Victoria Woodhull claimed guidance from the spirit world as she took on the millionaires of Wall Street before becoming America's first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon narrowly escaped the asylum before becoming a celebrity campaigner against archaic lunacy laws.

Drawing on diaries, letters, rarely seen memoirs and texts, Emily Midorikawa illuminates a radical history of female influence that has been confined to the dark until now.
Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance--a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own.

Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and, most important, influence, as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead. The Fox sisters inspired some of the era's best-known political activists and set off a transatlantic séance craze. While in the throes of a trance, Emma Hardinge Britten delivered powerful speeches to crowds of thousands. Victoria Woodhull claimed guidance from the spirit world as she took on the millionaires of Wall Street before becoming America's first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon narrowly escaped the asylum before becoming a celebrity campaigner against archaic lunacy laws.

Drawing on diaries, letters, rarely seen memoirs and texts, Emily Midorikawa illuminates a radical history of female influence that has been confined to the dark until now.
Über den Autor
Emily Midorikawa
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 352
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781640092303
ISBN-10: 1640092307
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Midorikawa, Emily
Hersteller: Counterpoint
Maße: 165 x 235 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Emily Midorikawa
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,632 kg
preigu-id: 118927093
Über den Autor
Emily Midorikawa
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 352
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781640092303
ISBN-10: 1640092307
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Midorikawa, Emily
Hersteller: Counterpoint
Maße: 165 x 235 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Emily Midorikawa
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,632 kg
preigu-id: 118927093
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